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Pattern January 2020 - Operation Thaw Alaska

High Wind Warnings out for eastern TN. This has been one of the more windier winters in recent memory.
 
I think winter is over for everyone south of Tennessee and North Carolina. Just my opinion.


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I wouldn’t go that far, it wouldn’t take much for areas south of I-40 to get something. But we’ve all been following winter weather long enough to never write winter off, where it be a marginal setup, some sneaking up on us, an amped up low with wraparound or a bowling ball ULL, countless possibilities that can still happen that don’t necessarily involve the classic miller A big dog.
 
12z RGEM supports some winter weather advisories along the escarpment. Sleet to ZR. BFAD7008-23FC-477F-B3CA-DC019C2A3DF5.jpeg
 
This is a rain or snow pattern imo..so a low tracking right over us just isn’t even the least bit interesting. Even a perfect low track is going to leave favored areas on the fringe in a marginal setup. What the GFS is puking out will not work. Still lots of details to be worked out but the theme so far this winter is a low that verifies much further north than modeled at d8-9. Just my thoughts
 
This is a rain or snow pattern imo..so a low tracking right over us just isn’t even the least bit interesting. Even a perfect low track is going to leave favored areas on the fringe in a marginal setup. What the GFS is puking out will not work. Still lots of details to be worked out but the theme so far this winter is a low that verifies much further north than modeled at d8-9. Just my thoughts
It should be at the very least interesting especially being this far out .. we know that the position will change just as the models have been pushing the lows south as we come further towards verification
 
This is a rain or snow pattern imo..so a low tracking right over us just isn’t even the least bit interesting. Even a perfect low track is going to leave favored areas on the fringe in a marginal setup. What the GFS is puking out will not work. Still lots of details to be worked out but the theme so far this winter is a low that verifies much further north than modeled at d8-9. Just my thoughts
Really hoping this at least works out for the mountains, at this point, it would be great to track anything here in the SE. For once, it would be awesome for something, anything, to trend in a good direction from the long range.
 
Serious question: other than it looks like a less than torchy pattern, is there anything to really be excited about going forward? I mean, I don’t see any signs of being able to really tap into the arctic in the next 7-10 days and I don’t trust anything beyond that time frame.
Models flirted with a triple phaser yesterday at 12z, but were still too warm
Not verbatim but might be workable. Need to see that high SE Canada get stronger or further south, and obviously that low to be further south and not phase or bomb out until later. Not too much to ask for, right?
 
Those two weak waves that slide through next week with insufficient cold air is going to be a hard pill to swallow. Sheared waves like that have been hard to come by the last several months and those are usually the types that bring areas south of 85 good snows. It’s tough. You hate to see those miss. You can’t help but think we’re striking out again and again
 
Its gonna be at least another 4-5 days or so probably until we can figure out if we can get a ULL situation that brings some heavy wet snow, although even still it might only be a good thing in the mountains. Thinking probably ULL or just some weak waves.
 
I’d like to see the 850 temp position across the south during our historical snow events of greater than 2”. I suspect it stretched from Texas through NC and was probably south of Dallas and Columbia SC. These narrow trough bottoms don’t seem to work for us. New thread : The Quest for late Winter Blocking
 
GFS Second Slider( Actually right down the middle. over the top of us, Apps runner)

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Canadian storm 2 has colder thickness with a weaker HP, but not as amped as GFS. Players in same general location, agreement.

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Would probably be a little slider, but that’s neither here nor there. Ain’t happening. You checked the monthlies lately?
Nope. Too late for monthlies to save us. About time to start checking the yearlies for next winter.
 
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